Trimming.



m. 686,408 Patented Nov. I2, 1901.

F. A. KUBSHEEDT. TRIMMING.

(Application filed May '6, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERIO A. KURSHEEDT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO KURSHEEDT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF YORK, N. Y. A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TRIMMINIG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 686,408, dated November 12, 1901.

Application filed May 6, 1901. Serial No. 58.908. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERIO A. KUR- SHEEDT, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trimmings, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to a new construction of a trimming such as is used for'ornamentin'g various garments.

My invention consists in a trimming made by folding a strip of fabric and giving a characteristic design to such strip along the folded edge.

My invention further consists in the additional details of construction and supplementary steps hereinafter explained and fully set forth.

The invention in all of its aspects will be clearly understood from the accompanying general description and from the drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view of one form of my improved trimming. Fig. 2 is a section on line 1 1 thereof, the scale in this figure being enlarged and the lower edges somewhat widely removed from each other. Fig. 3 shows the trimming as applied to a garment. Fig. 4 represents a further step which may be applied in producing a finished trimming.

In making my trimming I proceed as follows: A strip of fabric a, preferably out on the bias, is passed through a guide or guides of such design as to fold the strip in the center f and turn the two raw edges e inside of the fold, as shown in Fig. 2. Thus folded the strip is subjected to the action of the form-imparting mechanism. For this purpose I prefer to use two contrivances in the shape of roller-dies working on the male-andfemale principle, their outline being shaped in such a manner as to correspond to the configuration the edge of the finished article is expected to display. Feed-rollers are also provided to feed the strip 'through the machine, and the latter may be heated, so as to improve the durability of the figured edge.

I have shown an edge shaped so as to present a succession of scallops formed by depressions or notches c, alternating with rounded elevated portions, thus giving a regular, sinuous, or wavy outline to the trimming. The proportions and angles or curves of such notches, the distance at which they occur, and the general outline given to the article in this way may be varied at will, so long as a characteristic design is imparted thereby.

,I consider it only essential to the embodiment of my invention that a varied contour be imparted to the fabric along the folded edge in a manner such that this contour will be retained without the aid of stitches or other means of preserving the same. The article may be further finished, as shown in Fig. 4, by winding a thread spirally around the trimming in such manner that each turn of the spiral rests in one of the notches c of the figured edge. At either end of each piece of such trimming the winding thread may be fastened to the fabric by any suitable means to prevent unraveling, or, if desired for immediate use, the end of the thread may be held in place by the stitches employed to bind the trimming to the garment with which it is to be used.

It will be readily seen that a trimming such as described may be formed bya simple manipulation or by the agency of various mechanical devices other than those described.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As a new and useful article of manufacture, a trimming composed of a strip of fabric folded through the center, the two raw edges thereof being turned inwardly and the folded edge having impressed thereon an outline of a characteristic design.

2. In a figured trimming, the combination,

of a strip of fabric folded in the center, said folded edge having a patterned outline and a thread wound spirally around said strip of fabric in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

3. A trimming composed of a strip of fabric folded longitudinally as at f, having its raw edges turned inwardly as at e, and having a permanent sinuous or wavy outline imparted to said longitudinally-folded edge, substan- 1o tially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FREDERIO A. KURSHEEDT.

Witnesses:

F. EMIL, PATK. J. DEMPSEY. 

